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How To Force Links In Blogger To Open In New Tab

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63 Comments

  1. 1

    Nosa E Nosa

    Nice it's helping alot more people. Thanks for stopping by,

  2. 2

    Nosa E Nosa

    Its great to know this helped you. I appreciate your commendation.

  3. 3

    Nosa E Nosa

    Thanks for stopping by, we try to make things as easy as it can be. I am glad you love it.

  4. 4

    Nosa E Nosa

    Great to hear, you are welcome dear.

  5. 5

    Daniel Uzoigwe Chimezie

    Thanks, I just did it and it worked on my blog.

  6. 6

    Kayla Curry

    Hell yeah! You just saved me a ton of work! thank you!

  7. 7

    Amy Hoffman

    this was great! I've been wanting to do this for a long time and tried [and failed] to follow several complicated tutorials, thanks for making it easy!

  8. 8

    Seamist

    Worked perfectly! Thanks a lot!!

  9. 9

    Sakurai Winter

    Thank you very much.
    It’s very very useful.

  10. 10

    KarenH

    quick question? Sorry for being dumb but which “tag” do you mean?
    3. Search for the tag in your template’s code.

    thank you!

    1. 10.1

      Nosa E Nosa

      Hello KarenH,

      I am sorry for this, I guess it was mistakenly omitted when I migrated from Blogger to WordPress. I have updated the post now and should work for you.

      Do have a nice day friend. 🙂

  11. 11

    azwan

    Wow.. thanks you so much.. very helping

  12. 12

    Trayns

    Great! My first ever bit of html coding – thanks for the tip, didn’t realise it could be that simple – feeling pretty chuffed! x

    1. 12.1

      Nosa E Nosa

      Glad it worked for you. Enjoy the rest of the day mate..

  13. 13

    janinkanin

    that was easy! thank you so much for this trick, very helpful!

  14. 14

    yasi

    THANKS!!! That worked and it was so easy 🙂

  15. 15

    Kat B

    Thank you for the tutorial. It works great, but I noticed that even when I click on the Next or Previous page link for my blog a new tab is opened each time. I currently have eight pages to my blog and each page opens in a new tab when I click on the Next Page link. Is there anyway to fix that?

    1. 15.1

      Nosa E Nosa

      Hello Kat,

      All link on your blog will open in new tab if you implemented the tutorial.

      Do have a nice day.

  16. 16

    Haley Bowden

    Thanks for this tutorial! Simple enough, but never would have figured it out ;P

    1. 16.1

      Nosa E Nosa

      Haha!, Good to know buddy, enjoy the rest of the day.

  17. 17

    Keith Kreuz

    Worked like a charm — thank you!

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    Roy

    Thanks for that bit of code to get my links within my blog to open in new tabs, it was so easy to do. However, I now need to know how to fix a ‘Home’ button to show at all times on my google blog, even on the pages that open on the internet from the links in my blog. this is to allow me to always have a quick way back to my blog home page.
    I look forward to your solution.
    Many thanks again
    Roy

  19. 19

    Laura Jordan

    Thanks very much!! Namaste

  20. 20

    ausdancenetwork

    LEGENDARY!

  21. 21

    Shelly

    You were my 4th tutorial on how to do this!!! I wish I had found you FIRST! Thanks so much, you are awesome. 🙂

  22. 22

    Donna Hopkins

    Thank you! My teenage son helped me follow your instructions and had the situation under hand in about 3 minutes! So kind of you to share your expertise.

    1. 22.1

      Nosa Ero Nosa

      Wow, thats great.. Regards to your teenage son and do have a nice day Hopkins

  23. 23

    CJ

    Hi guys, I’ve got a “recent posts” section on my site that shows my blog feed, but when clicked on, it opens in this tiny area on my site and I would like it to open in a new window, essentially my blog page. Any ideas? I’ve searched for days and I’m stumped. Thanks

  24. 24

    Terry Gee

    Thanks so much for this!

  25. 25

    Elle Turner

    Thanks so much! The easiest bit of coding ever! Normally its such a faff!

  26. 26

    IAN CHANG

    It works. Thanks you so much.

  27. 27

    Glogirly and Katie

    Thank you SO much! So simple and worked beautifully!

  28. 28

    Lokesh P

    This is Great !
    Thankyou very much.

  29. 29

    Jeri Tanner

    Thank you very much! Very helpful!

  30. 30

    anye

    THANKS SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS! 🙂 WORKS LIKE MAGIC! 🙂
    You may want to add ‘edit HTML’ on step 2.. 🙂 I got confused a bit with ‘edit TEMPLATE’…

  31. 31

    Chaz

    Great! Thanks I was searching all over.

  32. 32

    Ran

    Hi

    Thanks it works BUT now I have a type/text of ” Blank’/> ” up in the top right hand corner of the site…………

    How can I get rid of that????

    1. 32.1

      Kanyi

      Having same problem also. Where you able to get rid of it?

  33. 33

    arielle

    Thank you SO MUCH. This has helped tremedously!

  34. 34

    Thougt.For.Food

    this has been a great intervention! thanks, opening links in current window is such a turn-off. thanks again!

  35. 35

    Dr.T.

    So awesome…and so easy. Thanks!

  36. 36

    Jamie Arisa

    wow! never knew it was so simple !
    😉 thank you!

  37. 37

    sizzling Jan

    Great, thanks!!

  38. 38

    Vix

    Thank you! you are awesome..;)

  39. 39

    Marie

    The intent was right but the code was poorly formatted. If other users are like me they will not have noticed for four weeks (!) that the bad code created an output of html code at th3 top of the blog page.

    This is the correct code:

  40. 40

    Marie

    (2nd attempt – the comment from will not allow me to post code) The intent was right but the code was poorly formatted. If other users are like me they will not have noticed for four weeks (!) that the bad code created an output of html code at the top of the blog page.

    This is the correct code:

  41. 41

    sam

    thanks so much!!!

  42. 42

    Kanyi

    Worked for me…Nice website also, Keep it up.

  43. 43

    Jennifer

    Hi thank you for this tutorial. I followed the instructions, but when I pasted the code, I received this message: Error parsing XML, line 5, column 17: The value of attribute “target” associated with an element type “base” must not contain the ‘<' character.

    It hasn't worked for me. What should I do? Your response would be so appreciated.

    1. 43.1

      Patricia Kiyono

      I got this message too. I haven’t seen a response about how to fix this.

  44. 44

    Wael Mohamed

    Just add before

  45. 45

    Wael Mohamed

    Just add before “” before “”

  46. 46

    Jeff

    Thank you!

  47. 47

    Sarah

    It didn’t work. Received the following error message:

    Error parsing XML, line 651, column 16: The value of attribute “target” associated with an element type “null” must not contain the ‘<' character.

    1. 47.1

      Aimee Spinato

      I got the same thing. 🙁

      1. 47.1.1

        hiphopslaughter

        try this instead, below ..

      2. 47.1.2

        You Can Never Know Who I Am

        that sad 🙁

  48. 48

    Giorgos

    This the third time that I found what I was looking with any time loosing. Thank you.

  50. 50

    lashpashchat

    Hello i want only one or 2 pages to open in new tab what can i do???

  51. 51

    saikiran

    Not yet working please check once again and edit it

  52. 52

    Miriam

    It doesn’t work. I have no idea how to save chages. the only “save” button that exists is “save template” but when I leave template section I keep getting warning “changes haven’t been saved”. When checking links still open in same tab. Any suggestions?

  53. 53

    Jason

    Type the command in manually instead of copying and pasting from the website. The apostrophe’s are the issue. You can also just delete them and retype them and it will save.

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